[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D141-D142]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 and the 
fiscal years 2007 and 2008 war supplemental requests in review of the 
Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Robert M. Gates, 
Secretary, and Tina W. Jonas, Under Secretary (Comptroller), both of 
the Department of Defense; and General Peter Pace, USMC, Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of General George W. Casey Jr., USA, for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff, United States Army; 
Admiral William J. Fallon, USN, for reappointment to the grade of 
admiral and to be Commander, United States Central Command; and 37 
nominations in the Army and Air Force.
WAR COSTS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine war 
costs, focusing on the costs of operations in the Iraq theater and 
issues associated with estimating those costs, while considering the 
costs of the continuing global war on terror, after receiving testimony 
from J. Michael Gilmore, Assistant Director for National Security, 
Congressional Budget Office; and Steven M. Kosiak, Center for Strategic 
and Budgetary Assessments, and Gordon Adams, Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars, both of Washington, D.C.
EPA DECISIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine recent Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) decisions, focusing on EPA actions and documents, including 
monitoring regulations related to perchlorate, the process for setting 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), the lead NAAQS process, 
air toxics control (the ``once in, always in'' policy), the Toxic 
Release Inventory, and EPA library closures, after receiving testimony 
from Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, Environmental Protection 
Agency; John B. Stephenson, Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, Government Accountability Office; Thomas M. Sullivan, 
Chief Counsel for Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration; John R. 
Balmes, University of California, San Francisco at San Francisco 
General Hospital, on behalf of the American Lung Association and the 
American Thoracic Society, and Gina M. Solomon, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, both of San Francisco, California; Leslie Burger, 
Princeton Public Library, Princeton, New Jersey, on behalf of the

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American Library Association; Robert T. Connery, Holland and Hart, 
Denver, Colorado; and Nancy Klinefelter, Baltimore Glassware 
Decorators, Baltimore, Maryland.
BUDGET PROPOSAL
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal, after receiving testimony 
from Henry M. Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury.
SOMALIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine a comprehensive stabilization, 
reconstruction and counter-terrorism strategy for Somalia, after 
receiving testimony from Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of 
State for African Affairs; Michael E. Hess, Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, United 
States Agency for International Development; David H. Shinn, George 
Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, former 
Ambassador to Ethiopia, and J. Stephen Morrison, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; and Ken Menkhaus, 
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina.
U.S. ATTORNEYS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine if 
the Department of Justice is politicizing the hiring and firing of U.S. 
attorneys relating to preserving prosecutorial independence, including 
S. 214, to amend chapter 35 of title 28, United States Code, to 
preserve the independence of United States attorneys, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Pryor; Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General, 
Department of Justice; Mary Jo White, Debevoise and Plimpton, LLP, New 
York, New York, former United States Attorney; Laurie L. Levenson, 
Loyola Law School Center for Ethical Advocacy, Los Angeles, California; 
and Stuart M. Gerson, Epstein, Becker and Green, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of John Preston Bailey, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, who was introduced by 
Senator Byrd and Representative Capito, and Otis D. Wright II, and 
George H. Wu, each to be United States District Judge for the Central 
District of California, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of J. Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be Director of 
National Intelligence.